Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Operational Heusinger valve gear. Brake shoes between the wheels. Cast metal chassis. Drive on all 8 driving wheels, with 2 traction tyres. Triple headlights at each end. Automatic couplings at each end. Epoch III.
Based on: The prototype is a new built steam locomotive of the DB. The top speed both forwards and backwards was 85 km/h. She weighed 107,6 tons and developed 1088 kW (1480 HP). 18 of this modern type of steam loco were built, of which the first was built by Krauss-Maffei, and delivered to the DB in 1951! Our 65 018 was made under the production number 17 987 and delivered to the DB on 7th April 1956.
